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Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report
BACKGROUND: Salmonella spp. represent a significant zoonotic concern to pregnant owners as infection can cause septic abortions and post-partum illness. Enteric salmonellosis is well documented in canines however urinary salmonellosis is rarely described and Salmonella prostatitis has never been des...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8008656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33785042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-021-02836-7 |
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author | Hertzer, John N. Fujishiro, Madeline Lawhon, Sara D. Creevy, Kate E. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Salmonella spp. represent a significant zoonotic concern to pregnant owners as infection can cause septic abortions and post-partum illness. Enteric salmonellosis is well documented in canines however urinary salmonellosis is rarely described and Salmonella prostatitis has never been described in dogs. CASE PRESENTATION: This case report describes the diagnosis and management of a five-year-old, intact male Labrador Retriever mix dog that was diagnosed with Salmonella prostatitis among other comorbidities including heartworm infestation. Additionally, mitigation of zoonotic spread is emphasized as one of the owners was six months pregnant at the time of diagnosis. DISCUSSION: The pathogenesis of Salmonella prostatitis is unknown but explanations pertaining to enteric salmonellosis, such as the lifestyle and stress of living as a stray may have contributed and contamination from an enteric infection may have also been possible. Several recommendations were made to reduce the likelihood of zoonotic transmission including frequent hand washing, avoidance of the patient’s mouth, change in location of where the patient was fed, the use of an isolated area outside for urination and defecation, and the use of dilute bleach to clean areas soiled by the patient’s bodily fluids. Monitoring of the prostatic infection was facilitated with prostatic wash instead of urine culture. This decision was made as prostatic infections have been shown to intermittently shed bacteria into the urine, leading to possible false negative urine cultures and potential catastrophic zoonotic infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-80086562021-03-31 Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report Hertzer, John N. Fujishiro, Madeline Lawhon, Sara D. Creevy, Kate E. BMC Vet Res Case Report BACKGROUND: Salmonella spp. represent a significant zoonotic concern to pregnant owners as infection can cause septic abortions and post-partum illness. Enteric salmonellosis is well documented in canines however urinary salmonellosis is rarely described and Salmonella prostatitis has never been described in dogs. CASE PRESENTATION: This case report describes the diagnosis and management of a five-year-old, intact male Labrador Retriever mix dog that was diagnosed with Salmonella prostatitis among other comorbidities including heartworm infestation. Additionally, mitigation of zoonotic spread is emphasized as one of the owners was six months pregnant at the time of diagnosis. DISCUSSION: The pathogenesis of Salmonella prostatitis is unknown but explanations pertaining to enteric salmonellosis, such as the lifestyle and stress of living as a stray may have contributed and contamination from an enteric infection may have also been possible. Several recommendations were made to reduce the likelihood of zoonotic transmission including frequent hand washing, avoidance of the patient’s mouth, change in location of where the patient was fed, the use of an isolated area outside for urination and defecation, and the use of dilute bleach to clean areas soiled by the patient’s bodily fluids. Monitoring of the prostatic infection was facilitated with prostatic wash instead of urine culture. This decision was made as prostatic infections have been shown to intermittently shed bacteria into the urine, leading to possible false negative urine cultures and potential catastrophic zoonotic infection. BioMed Central 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8008656/ /pubmed/33785042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-021-02836-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Hertzer, John N. Fujishiro, Madeline Lawhon, Sara D. Creevy, Kate E. Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title | Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title_full | Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title_fullStr | Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title_short | Treatment and management of Salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
title_sort | treatment and management of salmonella prostatitis in a heartworm‐positive intact male dog: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8008656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33785042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-021-02836-7 |
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